Aizawl, Jul 19 : Aizawl witnessed the fiercest gaming competitions to date at Aizawl, where more than 300 gamers battled during the Indian cyber gaming championship qualifiers for the first time.
The five-day gaming tournament that commenced on Thursday and concluded today, featured four games -Need for Speed: Most Wanted (NFS), Fifa11(single player games one versus one), Counter strike and Warcraft: Defence of the Ancients (DotA) (team games five versus five).
This is the first time a national level cyber gaming tournament was held in Mizoram.
Gamers from all over Mizoram and those from other states like Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya and Manipur showed up to claim the title of Mizoram ICGC Championship Qualifiers. The winning players will represent Mizoram in the nationals to be held in Goa.
There they will compete with the winners of rest of the 11 participating states and have a golden chance to win the nationals and represent India in the International gaming events Electronic Sports World Cup in France and the XPO games in Singapore.
"Mizoram has got the skills, but the gamers here never had the chance to go and compete in major tournaments, but this time I have left no stones unturned to host this tournament so that the gamers here can be motivated for national glory," said Benjamin Vanlalpeka, head of the Mizo e-Gamerz Association, who organised the event without any sponsor and help.
1 comments:
LOVE the last sentence
''...who organised the event without any sponsor and help!''
oh really?
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